Natural history enthusiast with passion for birds, illustration, and ecology. Science on @birdsbugsbones Nonbinary || Kailoma || They/Them 🏳️🌈
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Alex Barley retweeted
While Maui is burning, all people care about are their vacations. When Puerto Rico had no electricity after being decimated by a Hurricane, all people cared about were their vacations. This is how tourism & the framing of occupied land as “paradise” dehumanizes native populations
Alex Barley retweeted
"I've been hearing stories about people seeing this...thing...late at night when they're driving. It looks like headlights in the middle of the road but when ya' get close enough...it's eyes. it's fuckin' eyes. And it just keeps...dragging itself toward your car till it's...-'
Alex Barley retweeted
Foreshortening horses is the best and worst thing. They just become blobs upon blobs with awkwardly shaped leg things 😂
Alex Barley retweeted
I think it just wasn't possible for Minivan to be what he later became, because the atmosphere wasn't conducive to the possibility.
But then the atmosphere changed.
If we want to change it back, it's worth thinking about how atmospheres change.
armoxon.substack.com/p/one-a…
Alex Barley retweeted
I don’t miss Minivan's black-hole-sun smile. I think of it as my first hint of MAGA: politically overrepresented, socially coddled people, often living outwardly happy privileged lives, while seething inwardly that other people might be getting anything, anything at all.
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Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis)
ALT Digital drawing of a bighorn sheep ram in a leaping pose on a deep pink background.
